US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Jan. 27 for "Posture detection apparatus, posture detection method, and sleeping posture determination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,688, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Posture detection apparatus, posture detection method, and sleeping posture determination method" was invented by Koki Yoshida (Kyoto, Japan), Kahori Kise (Kyoto, Japan), Koichi Murata (Kyoto, Japan), Nobuya Hashizume (Kyoto, Japan), Masafumi Furuta (Kyoto, Japan) and Shima Okada (Kusatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position estimator outputs, by inputting information obtained from the frame images into a trained model, positional information of a plurality of parts of a human body from the trained model. A determination processor outputs information ...